The company is an open mobile platform. Rostelecom decided to buy the operating system developers from Berezkin. Goodbye, Moto - farewell to design happened quietly
As Kommersant has learned, the Open Mobile Platform (OMP) company, owned by ESN founder Grigory Berezkin, has agreed to create three versions of smartphones based on the version of the Sailfish mobile operating system it is developing. By the end of the year, devices from Oysters and Jolla running Sailfish Mobile OS RUS will go on sale on the Russian market, as well as the industrial smartphone “Ermak OMP” for corporate users and the public sector.
OMP has submitted an application to include its mobile operating system Sailfish Mobile OS RUS in the register of domestic software, according to data from the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications register. According to the company's official website at omprussia.ru, which is indicated in the application, three smartphones running Sailfish Mobile OS RUS will soon appear on the market - smartphones from Oysters and Jolla, as well as an industrial smartphone "Ermak OMP", intended for corporate users and being developed by Mobile Inform Group.
“We see our mission as making a mass product. The Jolla C smartphone running Sailfish OS can already be purchased in Europe, and its version running Sailfish Mobile OS RUS will go on sale before the end of the year. Around the same time, the Oysters smartphone will appear on the Russian version of Sailfish, now we are negotiating with the company regarding the necessary technical characteristics of the device,” Pavel Eiges, general director of OMP, told Kommersant. According to him, Mobile Inform Group is already preparing to release the Ermak OMP smartphone for corporate users. “We understand that we are entering a fully occupied market, which is dominated by two operating systems, but we believe that there are unoccupied niches,” says Mr. Eiges.
Sailfish OS is an operating system with open source elements, developed since 2012 by the Finnish company Jolla (created by people from Nokia), one of the shareholders of which is the ESN group. Open Mobile Platform - CR LLC was registered in March in Innopolis. Initially, the company, through Votron LLC, was owned by the founder of the ESN group, Grigory Berezkin (80%), and the former general director of the ESN, Mikhail Verozub (20%), follows from SPARK-Interfax data. At the moment, an 80% share has been transferred from Grigory Berezkin to Olga Berezkina.
The Jolla C smartphone running Sailfish 2.0 OS was introduced in May. It is equipped with a 4-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 212 processor with 2 GB of RAM and 16 GB of internal memory, a 5’’ screen and a 2500 mAh battery. Its price is €169. Oysters representative Mikhail Turkov confirmed to Kommersant that a couple of months ago the company began “close cooperation” with the OMP company and is going to release a smartphone on the version of the mobile OS they are developing.
The industrial smartphone “Ermak OMP” is being developed by the Russian company Mobile Inform Group (MIG), according to its website. According to SPARK-Interfax, M-Infogroup LLC is 34% owned by the CEO of the CDC group of companies Hussein Az-zari, 22% each is owned by MIG CEO Konstantin Mantsvetov and Oleg Rozhentsev, the remaining 22% is owned by Advance Mobility Solutions LLC ", which is also owned by Konstantin Mantsvetov and other individuals. “Ermak OMP” will run on a dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM 8960 processor with 1 GB of RAM and 8 GB of internal memory, a 3450 mAh battery capacity, and a 4.5” display. “The device will provide work with all types of radio frequency tags, bar codes and data transmission via open and encrypted communication channels. The smartphone is built specifically for intensive, long-term use,” says the company’s website. The customer service manager said that the price of the device, depending on the configuration, will be $1.5–2 thousand. MIG CEO Konstantin Mantsvetov adds that the choice of the OS for Ermak OMP was due to its openness to modifications and customization for corporate clients, smartphone production will be established on the territory of the Russian Federation.
The development of the first Russian smartphone, YotaPhone, began in 2010; the first version of the device went on sale at the end of 2013, the second at the end of 2014. By the end of 2015, YotaPhone manufacturer Yota Devices sold only 96 thousand smartphones. Until recently, 64.9% of Yota Devices belonged to the Telconet Capital Ltd fund of Sergei Adonyev and Albert Avdolyan, 25.1% to Rostec, 10% to MTH head of Yota Devices Vladislav Martynov. However, in the spring of this year, 30% of Yota Devices was bought from Telconet by the Chinese Rex Global Entertainment Holdings Ltd (later renamed China Baoli Technologies Holdings Ltd).
Representatives of M.Video, Euroset and Svyaznoy told Kommersant that they had not received offers to sell devices based on the Russian version of Sailfish. “The popularization of the new mobile OS will depend not only on its characteristics, but also on the development of mobile applications based on it. At the initial stage, devices with the new OS may be of interest to experts and fans of technical innovations,” notes M.Video. Svyaznoy agrees that “the appearance of such models will arouse some interest among those who like to be the first to test technological innovations, but you need to understand that this audience is quite narrow.” “This product is unlikely to meet the consumer’s interest,” a Euroset representative is skeptical, noting not only the new OS, but also the small diagonal of the device screens. In his opinion, “it’s hard to believe that in this market, in principle, it is possible to compete with iOS and Android.”
Maria Kolomychenko, Anna Balashova
It happens that you prepare topics for an issue, come up with phrases, sort everything out, feel like a great guy for selecting pictures in advance and making your work easier on the weekend, and then the release of the Russian-developed industrial smartphone “Ermak” happens. And you understand that it is impossible to ignore another tragicomic story. Therefore, most of the issue is devoted to the history of the emergence of a pseudo-national OS of Finnish origin. Please read this thread carefully, it's worth it, after all, these exercises are where our money is spent.
For those who closely follow the “Spillies” and remember all the vicissitudes of the fall of Windows Phone, the time has come to replenish the collections with outgoing goods; prices for the latest Lumia smartphones, as promised, have crept down. Soon sellers will begin to compete to see who will be the first to get rid of warehouses with such smartphones.
Now is the time for us to move on to the main topic of this issue.
“Open mobile platform” from Finland as a Russian national development
In the minds of some people, the school course in geography was somehow incorrect; in any case, they still consider the Grand Duchy of Finland to be part of the Russian Empire, apparently without looking at their passports, where the current state is written as the Russian Federation, and not as something else. otherwise. Pupils of Soviet schools could love Finland as the homeland of Viola processed cheese, a country that supplies foreign magazines to the USSR, or find some other reasons. And I won’t hide the fact that I have warm feelings for this small and quiet country, which I have explored far and wide. But I never tried to encroach on the territorial integrity of Finland and did not declare that it is a vassal of our country. But some commercial organizations and the Ministry of Communications, which has joined them, have their own point of view on Finland and what is happening in this small country. Let's figure out together how a new version of the national operating system appeared, which was allegedly developed in Russia, let's talk about the industrial smartphone “Ermak”, as well as other devices that are considered Russian. To be fair, it must be said that the majority sincerely pretend that these are Russian developments in order to extract certain benefits. But we don’t need to pretend that the king is naked, and we can understand this situation thoroughly, which is what we will do.
But let's start from afar to understand what the Sailfish operating system is and how it came into being, and who is behind its development. After Stephen Elop joined Nokia as CEO, the company’s most promising developments in the form of Meego (nee Maemo), as well as the budget version of Meltemi, were first frozen and then completely destroyed. Moreover, the destruction of documentation, source codes and prototypes took place physically, as if there was an enemy on Nokia’s doorstep who was capable of breaking down the doors of R&D centers and seizing equipment. The same Samsung, which offered to buy these developments for several billion euros, encountered a categorical refusal, Stephen Elop built a strategy that played into the hands of Microsoft in the mobile space, and strong developments from Nokia or other players conflicted with this task. As a result, a very funny situation emerged: Nokia was destroying something that they had been working on for several years, and what could have become a serious breakthrough in the market, several steps had to be taken before success, and the first products were able to be released within two or three quarters. The race for Maemo's inheritance was very serious, competitors bought out R&D employees and tried to restore the system piece by piece. But everything was in vain; it took time to go the same way, and gradually everyone abandoned it, the last being Samsung, which struggled with the task longer than others.
In 2012, part of the Maemo team realized that it would be left without work and self-organized into the startup Jolla, which in November 2012 announced the creation of its version of the OS, called Sailfish, as well as the release of devices running it in the future.
Unfortunately, even at that time it was clear that this system could not take off. A year after the release of Nokia N9, the startup was able to show a prototype of a phone that could do approximately the same thing, but not in full. The problem with Jolla at that time was that Nokia owned all the rights to the interface, and they had to create it from scratch, and at the same time circumvent the patents. The speed of development was slow, and its quality left much to be desired, and Jolla did not have any money, which is clearly evident from the first presentation, which resembled a skit event, and not an event of a large company.
To be fair, it must be said that the startup included 70 people, but almost all of them had experience working in large companies, for example, Nokia. The painful development of Sailfish was visible from year to year, the company looked for money, did not find it, tried to release devices, but canceled them. In a word, they were shaking very strongly and tossed from side to side.
Now a few words about the product itself, the Sailfish operating system. The system is initially closed source, with inclusions of open source libraries. There are no semantic interpretations here; this system can be considered completely closed to any external developer, observer, or manufacturer who decides to use it. Not all source code is written directly in Jolla, and there has never been any independent audit of this system, as there was no need for it. By November 2015, Jolla was in a deplorable state, there was no money to maintain an office or team, and as a result, the company, which had attracted a total of about $42 million in investments, officially filed an application in Finland for debt restructuring, plus announced the layoff of every second employee . As I see it, this well characterizes the demand on world markets for their product. But then the story begins about how money defeats common sense, fasten your seat belts, as it all starts with the sanctions imposed against Russia.
Life began to sparkle with new colors for officials when sanctions against Russia appeared. Despite the crisis, it suddenly became possible to ask or even demand money from the budget for the creation of certain areas in IT, in particular, in software. This whole story is deeply disgusting to me, since it denies common sense, and if you re-read the statements of those who created competitive conditions within the country in previous years, built innovations and technology parks, you suddenly wonder how we came to the beginning of sanctions with our pants half down. But this is a separate and sad topic, let’s not dwell on it.
So let's look further at what's happening with Jolla. In 2015, the Russian government is distributing tasks to departments and ministries to consider how they will implement the import substitution program. The Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications outlines six promising areas, one of which is the national mobile OS. The ministry did not waste time on trifles and asked for billions of rubles for all projects, while at the beginning of 2015 there were no justifications for such amounts, which caused sharp criticism from other departments, in particular the Ministry of Economic Development. However, the availability of public money attracted many participants in this process, and Jolla was de facto saved. They began to take a closer look at the company from the beginning of 2015; its management constantly met in Russia, in particular, Yandex top managers, the Minister of Communications and other officials of lower rank took part in these meetings. In the first half of 2015, Sailfish was considered a contender for government grants to create a mobile OS. No other options were simply taken into consideration.
The Minister of Communications, Mr. Nikiforov, publicly and repeatedly promoted Sailfish as a priority system for Russia, there was no hint of a position when various system options were considered and the best were selected, all conditions were created in such a way that the choice always fell on Sailfish. In any case, as an outside observer, I had the feeling that the PR activity of our Minister of Communications was off the charts, and Sailfish never had any shortcomings. For example, in May 2015, the chairman of the board of directors of Jolla, Antti Saarnio, participated in a meeting at the Ministry of Communications, after which our minister stated that it was important to create a common mobile OS within the framework of an international consortium (press release can be found)
Mr. Nikiforov repeatedly repeated and reinforced that Sailfish would become the basis for Russian development and an agreement in principle on this was reached with Jolla. And then a scandal occurred, since the chairman of the board of directors of Jolla, Anti Saarnio, having left Russia, immediately began to make comments that the Minister of Communications of the Russian Federation misunderstood what was discussed at the meeting. He repeatedly said: “In my opinion, there has been a misunderstanding in the media. This won't work. There is no need for a national OS.” Or, in more detail: “I think there was a misunderstanding that there would be some kind of Russian version of the operating system. There is no such need. Our approach is to take a single code and use it to integrate local Internet and e-commerce services into the user interface. And that's enough. There is no need to create your own system.” More details of his statements can be found.
Marvelous? That’s not the right word, the Finnish partners balked, although the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications had already appointed them to the role of their beloved wife, who should implement the Russian national mobile OS. For some reason, in Jolla they didn’t want to become a beloved wife and began to play tricks, not understanding what would happen next. The scandal did not at all spoil the position of our Minister of Communications, since most of it took place in the Western media, which have not been very trusted in the corridors of power lately.
According to the software import substitution plan approved by the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications on April 1, 2015, the share of imported client and mobile operating systems in the Russian market should decrease from the current 95 to 75% by 2020 and to 50% by 2025. Can you imagine the dizzying march of our OS, when in three full years (from 2017 to 2019 inclusive) it will suddenly take Android out of the top positions in the consumer market? This makes me laugh out loud, and the only possibility for such a scenario is to close the country to any external OS, and even in such a scenario, it is impossible to achieve 25% for a conditionally Russian OS. These are not just dreams, these are sand castles built on sand. When people who are far from the market, from the realities of this market, talk about this, it does not cause any reaction. But when the relevant ministry comes up with such plans and tries to extract money for them, it looks at least like complete, total ignorance of the market or acting in its own interests. Let me remind you that the cost of developing an OS based on Sailfish was estimated at 2.225 billion rubles, of which 1.89 billion rubles. should have been financed from the budget.
I’ll leave aside the story of how Mr. Nikiforov wrote about the search for programmers for Sailfish and other PR activities, which look at least surprising for an official. He is acting in the interests of a commercial player who could potentially receive a government grant, and I can't wrap my head around that. At all. No way. On the other hand, what is there to be ashamed of? After all, they are potentially doing a good job.
Now let's talk about Sailfish's Russian roots. In 2015, Russian businessman Georgy Berezkin invested money in the company; he is known for many large projects and for his ability to negotiate with officials, in any case, this is the skill that is talked about in many publications. For example, you can read a recent publication in the magazine “Company”.
In telecom, Georgy Berezkin is known rather from the unsuccessful side; he tried to fight for LTE frequencies with the big three, as well as Scartel, but failed, despite the active support from Medvedev. At that time, the situation was such that he had to retreat, despite the active support of the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications, the ministry did not act in favor of the market, and the reaction was extremely sharp and varied (you can read a little about that situation).
This time he acquired about 60% of Jolla, became the main shareholder and pays for all developments. At the same time, the Minister of Communications is already calling Jolla a company with Russian participation, which looks interesting. The current management of Jolla in November 2015, having not received the next round of investment, fully realized that speaking out denying the statements of Russian officials would not bring them money, and therefore resigned themselves to their fate. You can no longer expect problems from their side.
In fact, before our eyes, a race is unfolding in which one participant, represented by Sailfish, is chosen by the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications from a list of non-existent alternatives, since the same Tizen will not initially fall under the selection conditions created for such systems by the ministry. The activity of the Minister of Communications, who wittingly or unwittingly shows his attitude towards Sailfish, gives reason to believe that the winner is predetermined. I won’t even mention that this approach of choosing a closed-source system that has never had any independent audit is a flawed approach. Our country needs its own mobile operating system, and there is no doubt about it. But throwing money at someone else’s development, which has already proven itself to be unsuccessful in the commercial market and does not meet modern requirements, was created not as a B2B/B2G project, but for the consumer market, this means stoking the fireplace with money. I don’t believe that this is the only approach that works in Russia. I simply refuse to believe it, because I see completely different examples proving the opposite.
Now let's take a look at the Open Mobile Platform company, which is adapting Sailfish for officials and Russia. The site of the company .
The site is a test version, so let's attribute some rough edges to this. But on the site there are instructions for Sailfish 2.0, these are translated instructions for the OS, no one bothered too much and did the usual translation. Do you know what infuriates me, frankly pisses me off? The fact that people claiming to create a Russian national mobile system cannot be bothered to take screenshots in Russian for instructions. They are all in English, just like in the original instructions. However, like many menu items, they remained in English, which is worth App Grid.
And this takes into account the fact that the Russian language for this version of the OS exists and all that was needed was to take screenshots. But there was time to paste the WMD logo into the instructions, but there was no time to take screenshots. This is a good indicator of the level of “development” and involvement in the project. It’s these touches that make up the entire perception of the project.
But they managed to insert their two cents for the officials: “Sailfish OS is a modern operating system for mobile devices. It is completely independent of any states and players in large industries that build their own closed ecosystems.”
Separately, I would like to note the fact that they are trying to push Sailfish 2.0 (in our spelling Sailfish 2.0) as a program of Russian origin, which will automatically open up new horizons for “WMD” and make this software preferable when choosing certain devices for officials. But bad luck, it has been physically proven that the second version of the OS was developed outside of Russia and our developers have nothing to do with it. At all. It will be interesting to see whether they can push this system as “Russian” software.
Now let's go further and look at what has been done in terms of devices. Even before the appearance of Russian shareholders, Jolla entered the Russian market, where there is traditionally a large percentage of those who like to try the unknown. There were a fair number of Jolla lovers; the Jolla JP-1301 16 GB smartphone sold about a thousand units. By the way, this well characterizes the 25% of the market over three years, which was drawn by the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications.
At the moment, you cannot buy this smartphone; distributors do not supply it due to lack of prospects and demand. However, on the WMD website they decided to show it among the products due to the fact that it was necessary to create some appearance of mass appeal.
I repeat once again, they are trying to “sell” us, or, more precisely, in non-literary language, to smuggle in stale goods that have already outlived their usefulness and are not in demand. Another smartphone from Oysters, which is a Russian B-brand specializing in tablets, and not smartphones at all. The company does not have any experience in smartphones, this applies to everything, including the development of such devices and bringing them to fruition. Without a large staff of engineers, this is somewhat difficult to do.
The fact that it was surprising for Oysters to include a smartphone in its product line is even proven by the fact that on the website in the description of this product there is something funny, see the screenshot below about the type of operating system on the tablet.
The price of the smartphone from Oysters is unknown; its twin brother Intex Aqua Fish for India costs about $150, has a slightly smaller battery and a slightly different design. Based on this, we can assume the Russian cost is in the range of 15 to 20 thousand rubles minimum.
Now let's focus on the Ermak OMP smartphone, which was “created” by the system integrator Mobile Inform Group, a Russian company. Let's read the description of this smartphone on the integrator's website:
“Ermak OMP is an industrial smartphone running Sailfish OS, which provides work with all types of radio frequency tags (RFID), bar codes and data transmission via open and encrypted communication channels.
The device is equipped with a communications package that supports 3G/4G LTE cellular communication standards on 2 SIM cards and GPS/GLONASS modules. The device has a solid level of physical protection and is built specifically for intensive long-term use: dust and moisture protection at IP65 level, mechanical stability - repeated drops onto concrete from a height of 1.5 meters, operation at temperatures from -20C to +60C, operation up to 10 hours without recharging (at - 20C).
Depending on the configuration, the Ermak OMP secure smartphone is equipped with an internal RFID module for working with different ranges of tags and contactless cards: LF, HF, UHF. Optionally equipped with a fingerprint scanner and machine readable zone (MRZ) reader.”
While I was reading the description, I couldn’t shake the feeling that I already had this “development” in my hands, I dug around on the same site, and here it was - Coppernic C-One.
Please note that the image of the Ermak smartphone is a picture of a Coppernic C-One with the Sailfish logo added. The device is called a Russian-French development, although in hardware it is exclusively a French model, it has Russian security certificates and certification itself. This is a regular Android smartphone running Android 4.2.2. However, individual modules may be Russian, but the hardware itself and its design have nothing to do with our country.
This is how Copernicus gave birth to Ermak, there is no other way to say it. They rolled Sailfish into the old model, which costs about 800 euros, and got a “Russian smartphone”, which was developed by us. An interesting balancing act. With an estimated cost, which the Kommersant newspaper found out, at $1,500-2,000, depending on the configuration. I have certain gaps in my school education, since I never learned how to turn 800 euros of the initial configuration into 1,500 dollars without any costs. In fact, upgrading the device costs absolutely nothing, but its cost changes fabulously.
What was it? Before our eyes, the story of a national mobile platform is once again unfolding, for which the corpse of Sailfish was pulled out of Finland and they are trying to revive this system with magical passes. And at the same time, comb the dead man’s hair so that it gives the impression that he is alive and can do something else. Over the course of several years, Jolla was able to prove in practice that its efforts were pointless and it had no support. Russia as a state, in theory, can provide such support, but bad luck, we need other operating systems based on their capabilities, we initially do not need a Sailfish-style system. The Jolla example proves that in a couple of years you can create your own OS and spend about 40 million dollars on it. This is quite comparable to the 2-3 billion rubles that they want to send to support the national mobile OS. But the difference lies in the approach. If we develop a system to meet the requirements of departments and our security standards, and start doing this from conditional zero, then we will get a higher level of protection and the ability to change everything, from start to finish. Using someone else's system leaves room for backdoors and holes, and money will be burned in similar or even greater volumes, because then you will have to switch again to your own OS, which will need to be developed.
Unfortunately, technology and politics are closely intertwined in this situation. I have no doubt that in Russia the state, military and officials need software-protected devices, smartphones and tablets, in which the risk of penetration from the outside is reduced. This is right. But seeing how and what the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications and personally the Minister of Communications Nikolai Nikiforov are doing in this direction, I feel sharp rejection. This is a waste of time and energy that our country does not have. To some extent, this is direct and undisguised sabotage. There may be different points for different projects, but there is simply nothing to discuss here, since there is no Sailfish project for Russia, but there is a project on how to revive the corpse of this OS, present it as a Russian development and receive budgetary funds for it.
You and I don’t have many opportunities to stop this story at the very beginning, but we still have them. Try to tell this story as widely as possible, do not be lazy to share it on social networks. This is important for all of us; after all, officials are going to spend our taxes, not some kind of virtual money, and spend it ineptly. For my part, I will spend my time telling this story in full color and detail in the coming week to a number of officials from other departments, which may once again affect the situation. Look, together we will change the situation for the better.
Goodbye, Moto - farewell to design happened quietly
I didn’t expect amazing discoveries from Lenovo Tech World in San Francisco; I knew that they would show new thin Motorola smartphones, but I hadn’t seen them either in pictures or in person. And then Artem reported from the premiere, and I became sad. Very much.
Check out this photo of Moto's Z line. Just look and say the first thing that comes to your mind.
I’m not trying to force my tastes on you, but I don’t think this phone is good from a design point of view; I would call it ugly. Let's take a look at the front panel?
The small square button is not a button at all, it is a fingerprint sensor, this square has no other function. This phone looks like a monster from a nightmare, you can get used to it, but it has nothing to do with the Motorola that I still remember. This is a symbiosis of some strange desires and trends, from which came something definitely original, but not very beautiful.
As someone aptly joked in the comments, now Sony is releasing flagships with the letter X, and Moto has launched the Z-series instead of X, from now on life will get better for these companies. Five point joke. But it’s sad that such nonsense came out with the design; after all, Motorola gave many a guide, both in what can be done and in the materials used. Apparently, all this remains in the past.
The claim of the Z-series is the modules that stick like magnets to the back surface. This idea came from Lenovo R&D; I was told about it at the birth of the Vibe line, in a Beijing laboratory. And now, apparently, they were able to use it in this line of devices.
The idea of a modular smartphone has been toyed with by many manufacturers, and it is not without a certain meaning, but in real life only the largest companies will be able to implement it, and then with a number of restrictions. It simply won’t take off, people don’t buy modular devices, this even applies to PCs, which were initially perceived in Russia as modular devices, a kind of self-assembly kit. Those days are gone. In other markets, the initial perception of the devices was different.
Lenovo relied on the new smartphones to be very, very thin; they clearly admired the release of the RAZR, which revolutionized the market in terms of design and was somewhat inferior in its technical capabilities to other devices. But the RAZR had another advantage: you wanted to pick it up and use it. It was a bomb.
There is no bomb in the new Moto, they are just thin and scary. And to then increase their functionality, you can attach the panel, for example, with speakers from JBL. Good idea? In theory, yes. In practice, your phone becomes even more scary.
If designers did this, it seems to me that they suffered and had fits. They were given the task of creating a very thin and attractive device. And then they gave us the task of adding external modules to it, which made it thick and ugly. Cool? Not at all.
A thin smartphone has long ceased to be an end in itself; a 5 mm or 7-8 mm case is not perceived as a big difference.
There have been many Chinese thin smartphones on the market, but none of them have achieved much success. These were image toys, which ultimately required low prices.
We have been discussing for several episodes now that Lenovo is somewhat lost in the market and does not know what to do. As I see it, the latest presentation and product line clearly demonstrates this. Lenovo simply doesn't know what to do with Moto and is turning it into a hybrid monster that scares off Motorola's old audience and doesn't attract new ones. I'm afraid this will make a lot of people say "goodbye, Moto." What do you think? Share your sense of beauty, tell us if you liked these models.
Three days of rest, a holiday that many do not consider as such. No matter what we consider this day to be, I use it as a reason to let you listen to the song “Motherland” performed by Victoria Cherentsova, I accidentally came across it on social networks, look at other compositions, especially with my own lyrics. Surprisingly, Victoria broadcasts her singing while driving on Periscope, but her own website is, to put it mildly, ascetic, as is her YouTube channel. On the other hand, this is a demonstration of how modern technologies allow us to reach the audience and communicate with them, or, more precisely, with us. Take note!
P.S. On my own behalf, I want to wish you a good mood, let people smile at you, and you at them, and you can do this for no reason! Good luck.
Officially announced the acquisition of 75 percent shares in Open Mobile Platform LLC (OMP) and Votron LLC, which are working on the Sailfish operating system. Both companies directly or indirectly belong to the founder of the ESN group, billionaire Grigory Berezkin.
The companies decided not to disclose the transaction amount, but it is noted that the value will be determined “based on the report of an independent appraiser”, and it should not be higher than the market price. In April 2017, the Vedomosti newspaper, citing its sources, wrote that the seller of the companies valued the entire asset at $50 million.
| This transaction is consistent with our strategy to create a comprehensive offer for our customers with a full range of digital services,” says Rostelecom President Mikhail Oseevsky. - The mobile operating system organically complements our product offering, and we hope that it will become a relevant solution for creating a corporate smartphone that provides all the necessary functions, including communications, mail, document management, cloud services, etc. The uniqueness of Sailfish Mobile OS RUS lies in the fact that it is the only mobile operating system on the market that can be completely localized. |
Rostelecom adds that the purchase of the Sailfish Mobile OS RUS operating system will expand the operator’s capabilities in promoting comprehensive solutions for various customers.
Harman Connected Services, as OMP's software development partner, will participate in the development of the ecosystem for Sailfish Mobile OS RUS. The technical competencies of the Harman Connected Services team will increase the quality and speed of new innovative technologies and applications for Sailfish Mobile OS RUS users.
Rostelecom submitted an application to the FAS for the purchase of weapons of mass destruction
In February 2018, it became known about Rostelecom’s plans to acquire the Open Mobile Platform (OMP). The purpose of the company's transaction is to focus on import substitution.
RBC notes that Rostelecom's traditional fixed-line telephony, long-distance and international communications business has been declining for several years in a row. The operator tried to compensate for the loss of income by providing broadband Internet access and pay television services, but these segments are also close to saturation, so the company is looking for new growth points, which, in particular, it sees in the developers of the Sailfish mobile OS.